Frommer's San Antonio and Austin (Frommer's Complete)
Product Type: Book
Product Price: $16.99
Manufacturer: Frommers
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Description
A complete guide to two of Texas's most diverse and exciting cities
- Shows visitors how to have a great time in San Antonio, a multicultural city with a rich history (the Alamo) and lots of contemporary attractions (including over forty golf courses)
- Reveals San Antonio's most memorable experiences--from a stroll along the San Antonio River to a mariachi mass at Mission San Jose--and offers intriguing side trips to the Texas Hill Country
- Takes visitors to the best of Austin, the "Live Music Capital of the World," with more than 200 music clubs
- Explains how to make an Austin visit unforgettable, from visiting the state capital and LBJ Library to listening to blues at Antone's, hiking and biking in city parks, and watching the bats at Congress Avenue Bridge
Reviews
Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2010-09-04
Summary: "Great Gift!"
My husband and I have used a number of travel guides over the years and always found them helpful. When two of my friends/retiring co-workers decided to spend 6 weeks in the Rio Grande Valley including some time in Austin, San Antonio and the Texas Hill Country I did some research on Amazon for a travel guide as a gift.
Knowing what they have planned I think this guide will only make their trip better. There are laminated maps, sidetrips to the Hill Country, restaurant recommendations, and shopping, shopping and shopping trip tips.
I hope they enjoy the guide!
I hope they enjoy their retirement, they have earned it! :)
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-04-29
Summary: "Great book for 2010 visit"
We found this book to be a great asset for our visit to Austin and San Antonio in April 2010. Very helpful for finding fun activities as well as great food. I would recommend this to everyone visiting these towns for the first time!
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2009-03-02
Summary: "Frommer's San Antonio"
We used this book a LOT during our week vacationing in San Antonio. I found that their recommendations were right on the mark, for places to see and things to do, and restaurants. We'd already done our airline, rental car, and hotel reservations, so we didn't need the book for that. But we did their recommended downtown walking tour one day, and it was just like having our personal tour guide with us as we read about each stop. The first night we found our way to a Tex-Mex restaurant that they recommended, and we thoroughly enjoyed the experience.
Other days we drove to outlying towns that were also recommendations, and we never would have discovered them on our own without that book. This book is a Must if you are going to vacation in San Antonio and/or Austin and haven't been there before!
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2008-08-26
Summary: "Check out Austin"
This book was very helpful on my recent 3 day trip to Austin. I used many of the suggestions (Austin Motel, Duck Adventure, Bat tour) and found them to be right on the mark. It was a good investment and made the trip much more organized.
Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2008-01-02
Summary: "Good general information-not so good details"
This book served its basic purpose, however did not contain many specifics, for instance: it mentions to do a self guided walking tour of the King William District but they only give you the main street in the King William District--directions for a walking tour would be nice since there are several areas that aren't very worthy of a tour.
The worst part of this book, however, was that the main San Antonio map had a critical HWY missing! It appears that HWY 151 was extended to HWY 90 several years ago, but the book has it stopping at the 410. This provided us with several overdriven directions until we discovered the error. I usually like Frommers but I think this one needs a little tweaking.